ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Complete the following quote:“To be great is to be ____ “
A
saved
B
a genius
C
intelligent
D
misunderstood
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -To Be Great Is to Be Misunderstood – The Meaning This quote means that being gifted sometimes equals being too difficult to understand. This may result in social rejection. When someone is much smarter and more creative than the average person, they may look too eccentric to those around them.

Detailed explanation-2: -Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”

Detailed explanation-3: -To be great is to be misunderstood.” Emerson has used this phrase in the context that if people misunderstand a person due to his different ideas from the masses, then the person is, in fact, a great thinker.

Detailed explanation-4: -“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Emerson empowers us to be ourselves in a world that’s constantly trying to make us something else.

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